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4.06 million – Average viewers for FS1’s first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points race this past Sunday. The audience for the race from Martinsville ranks fourth among all FS1 telecasts all-time, behind only three Giants-Cardinals NLCS games from '14 ( THE DAILY ).

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Boston '24 has encountered a "rough reception" with its Olympic bid as it "travels across the city pitching plans that were developed behind closed doors, without consultation from local landlords, advocates, and neighborhood groups, all of which are accustomed to playing a role in approving and sha ...

Boston Olympic organizers, "seeking to regain the public trust after eight weeks of bruising criticism and sharply declining support, reversed course on Tuesday and said they would sponsor a statewide referendum" on the effort to bring" the '24 Games to the city, according to a front-page piece by M ...

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh's political machine is "mobilizing his campaign troops to throw their muscle behind the city-backed bid" to host the '24 Games "amid declining support for the Olympics and the growing likelihood it will be put to the voters" as a '16 ballot question, according to Matt ...

The Boston Olympic bid committee said that it will move forward with a proposal to bring the '24 Summer Games to the city "only if a majority of the public shows support for the effort -- and the panel would be open to a statewide referendum to accomplish that," according to a front-page piece by Ma ...

Public support for Boston's '24 Games bid "was already on the downslope, but it has plunged even further in the last month," according to WBUR-FM poll data cited by Katharine Seelye of the N.Y. TIMES. Only 36% of adults in the Boston region "support hosting the Games," while 52% oppose doing so ...

The USOC's top execs "expressed full confidence Friday in the team overseeing Boston’s bid for the 2024 Summer Games, despite a drop in poll numbers and recent questions about the bid committee’s public relations strategy," according to Mark Arsenault of the BOSTON GLOBE. USOC CEO Scott ...

The public -- and now public officials -- are "tired of Boston 2024
acting like a private club, being exclusive and secretive about
everything from venue details to staff salaries," according to Shirley Leung of the BOSTON GLOBE. Even Boston '24 Chair John Fish "would have a hard time arguing" that ...

Boston '24 Chair John Fish yesterday "defended the hiring of former Gov. Deval Patrick and a slew of politically wired consultants and lobbyists ," saying that he "wanted to put the 'best players on the field' in his quest to land the Summer Olympics bid," according to Richard Weir of the BOSTON HE ...

Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick "scored a $7,500-a-day consulting gig" with Boston '24, according to Cassidy & Weir of the BOSTON HERALD. Boston '24 Exec VP Erin Murphy Rafferty said Patrick will be paid “based on the amount of his travel and efforts on behalf of Boston 2024 -- the ...